If the county isn't allowed to placed a mask mandate in the classroom

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The CDC recommends many things that FCPS chooses not to follow. Why are we stuck on only the masking recommendation?

Such as? Just curious.

- 3 feet of distancing
- screening testing
- cohorting
- 6 feet of distance between staff and students
- canceling band, choir, plays/musicals, and other activities that involve singing or shouting
- canceling high-risk indoor sports such as basketball and wrestling

Oh, I thought you meant in other categories of things, not just covid crap. I’m sick of covid. We certainly aren’t doing any of those silly recs, thank god. They need to update their guidance to reflect how mild omicron is.

I hope that they update the guidance soon. The hysteria is wearing me down. I teach high school, and I think that if they did away with the mask mandate, the students would still be showing up in masks for the next month or so. Look at Walmart and Wegmans, for goodness sake. No masks required, but almost everyone is still wearing one. People should realize that doing away with the mask mandate in schools does not mean that you are forbidden to wear one.

Masks protect other people more than the wearer. The selfish ones get to spread their germs more freely to the ones with common curtsey

Not an issue anymore. Vaccines work. If FCPS allows students to not get the vaccine, then they should allow students to not wear masks.

Vaccines must not work it everyone is so terrified their still wearing masks and scared of people who don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to get rid of the masks. We've been so careful for months upon months, only to get covid last month. My kid masked everywhere too.

Get vaccinated, get covid (or do both) but let's get rid of the masks. Causing more harm than good.

You’re a terrible person.

This is a PANDEMIC!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to get rid of the masks. We've been so careful for months upon months, only to get covid last month. My kid masked everywhere too.

Get vaccinated, get covid (or do both) but let's get rid of the masks. Causing more harm than good.

You’re a terrible person.

This is a PANDEMIC!

It’s getting to the point where I can’t tell the satire posts from the real Covid panic crew.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to get rid of the masks. We've been so careful for months upon months, only to get covid last month. My kid masked everywhere too.

Get vaccinated, get covid (or do both) but let's get rid of the masks. Causing more harm than good.

You’re a terrible person.

This is a PANDEMIC!

It’s getting to the point where I can’t tell the satire posts from the real Covid panic crew.

Is the covid panic crew people who don't want to get an infectious disease, or people hysterical over wearing a piece of paper over their mouths?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^^ There are plenty of parents (like me) who have vaccinated and boosted kids that would prefer no mask mandate.

Well, the CDC disagrees. But I think we should do an FCPS survey and see what the numbers really are. As someone who has already had a kid who is vaccinated (not yet eligible to be boosted) have to stay at home as a close contact (masked if you're in 3 ft for more than 15 min you have to go home, unmasked--e.g. lunch or exemptions--it's 6 ft.), not really wanting to more than likely double the case of having to do that again.

The CDC also thinks that we should be canceling basketball, choir, and theatre in our area of high transmission. But we are choosing to not do that. Clearly, FCPS can pick and choose which CDC guidelines to follow. Personally, I feel that we should eliminate the mask mandate and eliminate the close contact quarantine requirements. Both are unnecessary given our highly vaccinated community.

We're really not as highly vaccinated a community as you might think. My relatives in Spain have school pauses for less and they think an area is not highly vaccinated when it is 90% vaccinated. Fairfax is better than Alabama or SW VA or wherever, but on an international scale of other developed areas we're not that great. And I've been surprised that FFx 65+ vaccination rate is stuck at 85% --that's not that great even in the US.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^^ There are plenty of parents (like me) who have vaccinated and boosted kids that would prefer no mask mandate.

Well, the CDC disagrees. But I think we should do an FCPS survey and see what the numbers really are. As someone who has already had a kid who is vaccinated (not yet eligible to be boosted) have to stay at home as a close contact (masked if you're in 3 ft for more than 15 min you have to go home, unmasked--e.g. lunch or exemptions--it's 6 ft.), not really wanting to more than likely double the case of having to do that again.

The CDC also thinks that we should be canceling basketball, choir, and theatre in our area of high transmission. But we are choosing to not do that. Clearly, FCPS can pick and choose which CDC guidelines to follow. Personally, I feel that we should eliminate the mask mandate and eliminate the close contact quarantine requirements. Both are unnecessary given our highly vaccinated community.

We're really not as highly vaccinated a community as you might think. My relatives in Spain have school pauses for less and they think an area is not highly vaccinated when it is 90% vaccinated. Fairfax is better than Alabama or SW VA or wherever, but on an international scale of other developed areas we're not that great. And I've been surprised that FFx 65+ vaccination rate is stuck at 85% --that's not that great even in the US.

+1

Our country is also the least-vaccinated developed country. Thanks, crazy anti-vax and anti-science idiots.

[Anonymous]

We're vaccinated enough so that our hospitals have plenty of room despite the "raging pandemic." Time for the mask mandate to expire.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to get rid of the masks. We've been so careful for months upon months, only to get covid last month. My kid masked everywhere too.

Get vaccinated, get covid (or do both) but let's get rid of the masks. Causing more harm than good.

You’re a terrible person.

This is a PANDEMIC!

It’s getting to the point where I can’t tell the satire posts from the real Covid panic crew.

Is the covid panic crew people who don't want to get an infectious disease, or people hysterical over wearing a piece of paper over their mouths?[/quote]

Yep. And they call us panicked sheep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're vaccinated enough so that our hospitals have plenty of room despite the "raging pandemic." Time for the mask mandate to expire.

anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention knows that this simply is not true. Hospitals are at capacity, over capacity, or near capacity throughout the country. There were articles about this again this morning in all of the mainstream news sources.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to get rid of the masks. We've been so careful for months upon months, only to get covid last month. My kid masked everywhere too.

Get vaccinated, get covid (or do both) but let's get rid of the masks. Causing more harm than good.

You’re a terrible person.

This is a PANDEMIC!

It’s getting to the point where I can’t tell the satire posts from the real Covid panic crew.

Is the covid panic crew people who don't want to get an infectious disease, or people hysterical over wearing a piece of paper over their mouths?

Its more than a piece of paper over a mouth.

My 6 yearold's speech issue was missed by her teacher.

My 2 yearold misses out on important social cues from her loving daycare teachers and classmates.

This is about more than a piece of paper and you are either idiotic or misinformed if you think of it as such.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to get rid of the masks. We've been so careful for months upon months, only to get covid last month. My kid masked everywhere too.

Get vaccinated, get covid (or do both) but let's get rid of the masks. Causing more harm than good.

You’re a terrible person.

This is a PANDEMIC!

It’s getting to the point where I can’t tell the satire posts from the real Covid panic crew.

Is the covid panic crew people who don't want to get an infectious disease, or people hysterical over wearing a piece of paper over their mouths?

Its more than a piece of paper over a mouth.

My 6 yearold's speech issue was missed by her teacher.

My 2 yearold misses out on important social cues from her loving daycare teachers and classmates.

This is about more than a piece of paper and you are either idiotic or misinformed if you think of it as such.

Wait, shouldn’t a parent be able to identify a speech issue in his/her 6YO?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to get rid of the masks. We've been so careful for months upon months, only to get covid last month. My kid masked everywhere too.

Get vaccinated, get covid (or do both) but let's get rid of the masks. Causing more harm than good.

You’re a terrible person.

This is a PANDEMIC!

It’s getting to the point where I can’t tell the satire posts from the real Covid panic crew.

Is the covid panic crew people who don't want to get an infectious disease, or people hysterical over wearing a piece of paper over their mouths?

Its more than a piece of paper over a mouth.

My 6 yearold's speech issue was missed by her teacher.

My 2 yearold misses out on important social cues from her loving daycare teachers and classmates.

This is about more than a piece of paper and you are either idiotic or misinformed if you think of it as such.

Wait, shouldn’t a parent be able to identify a speech issue in his/her 6YO?

Yes, when I brought it up they told me they didn't have any concerns. I pushed for the specialist to check it out, which of course she did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to get rid of the masks. We've been so careful for months upon months, only to get covid last month. My kid masked everywhere too.

Get vaccinated, get covid (or do both) but let's get rid of the masks. Causing more harm than good.

You’re a terrible person.

This is a PANDEMIC!

It’s getting to the point where I can’t tell the satire posts from the real Covid panic crew.

Is the covid panic crew people who don't want to get an infectious disease, or people hysterical over wearing a piece of paper over their mouths?

Its more than a piece of paper over a mouth.

My 6 yearold's speech issue was missed by her teacher.

My 2 yearold misses out on important social cues from her loving daycare teachers and classmates.

This is about more than a piece of paper and you are either idiotic or misinformed if you think of it as such.

Wait, shouldn’t a parent be able to identify a speech issue in his/her 6YO?

Could a parent who wasn’t a native English speaker identify a speech issue? How about a parent who’s hard of hearing? How about a foster parent or a grandparent caregiver? Think for a minute.

[Anonymous]

From CNN article from today:

“Less than 0.2% of Covid-19 deaths in the United States have been among children, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Children account for about one in five (22%) people in the US population overall, but about one in every 645 Covid-19 deaths and one in every six Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.

There have been about 1,100 deaths and about 8.3 million cases among children, according to CDC data.“

I still support masking at school and elsewhere in public until the medical and scientific communities say otherwise, but these are good data that can help inform decision-making going forward.

[Anonymous]

My kindergartner doesn't remember being in a classroom where everyone isn't masked. If you don't think that's going to impact this cohort in the coming years, you are being (I hope) purposefully obtuse. Once vaccinated, kids shouldn't have to wear masks. If their parents want them to be, that should be their choice.